~misfit~ wrote:

Hurrah wrote:

"John Donson" <harigejan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41088045$0$29602$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl...

What does this mean? A lot of work for nothing?

July 28, 2004
The project is currently down. We found a bug in the scheduling
code such that returned results were not being updated in the
database. We are now running a fix script on the DB, marking each
affected result as unsent so that it will be resent.
Unfortunately, credit was not given for results affected by the
bug.

Does that mean all the work I did the last week was for nothing?

VERY probably...!

Also, from what it sounds like (and I wished they would get someone
to write the news who was not so ambiguous):

any WU you sent, the data would have been cleared off the computer
that did it - so, the actual work may be lost as well as no-one's
computer retains info on the work done (ie in a back-up), so the bit
about being "resent" sounds false - more like:

"we'll have to make that WU available for download again, so it can
be crunched again and then returned again, by which time, the
scheduler code will be fixed"


Yet another big blow for BOINC.....!

I wondered why my credit hadn't gone up for the past week while my
power bill has. I've been running four machines 24/7 on BOINC.

That will really annoy me if that's all been for nothing, no science
and no credit. I've gone without other stuff (like food<g>) to pay
for the electricity.

Same here. I am a volunteer who believes in the good cause. Sure, I play the
credit-game. But that is just to get my juices flowing, as it were. (If I
was really doing it for the credits, I would be playing an other game).

I do not care about my electricity-bill. I earn enough money to pay it.

I even enjoyed the fuss about the lack of WU's and keeping my machines
going. I think I did quite well during the last week or so.

BUT WHAT REALLY GETS ME PISSED OFF IS DOING WORK, PAYING THE E-BILL AND
GOING THROUGH ALL THAT TROUBLE FOR NOTHING!

That is, if it is really true that all the work of last week has been lost.
The post on the seti-homepage is ambiguous.